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Stephen Kieran, James Timberlake, and Brian Phillips: AIA Awards

Associated faculty Stephen Kieran (MArch’76) and James Timberlake (MArch’77) were awarded an AIA Philadelphia Gold Medal for their work on the US Embassy in London.

Their namesake firm, KieranTimberlake, designed the building as a transparent cube with a two-story colonnade in Nine Elms, a South Bank industrial zone undergoing redevelopment. The goal for the project was to emulate transparency, openness and equality.

The AIA said, “The jury appreciated how difficult the program was and gave special recognition for the project’s stellar sustainability interventions confirming the architects had successfully blended the landscape, architecture and sustainability goals with this incredible project.”

The firm Interface Studio Architects (ISA), where Brian Phillips (MArch’96), PennDesign lecturer, is a principal, was recognized by the Philadelphia and Pennsylvania chapters of the AIA with five awards. Transatlantic, an adaptive reuse project in Philadelphia, was awarded an AIA Philadelphia Gold Medal; Tiny Tower won an AIA Philadelphia Honor Award in the Built category and an AIA PA Bronze Award; BalletX HQ received an AIA Philadelphia Merit Award for Built Interiors; and Outside-In House was given an AIA PA Bronze Award.

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